The Videodrome director turns his eye to toxic celebrity culture in Maps to the Stars.

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David Cronenberg has always been fixated on bodies. He fused them to television screens in Videodrome, crafted the finest head-explosion scenes of all time in Scanners, and charted every gruesome st
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Investigating the FBI.

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On March 8, 1971, the night
that Joe Frazier fought Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century, a
group of activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pa. They found
documents proving the FBI a
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Liz Taylor’s Portland granddaughter keeps her legacy alive.

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Elizabeth Taylor was many things during her life, which
was spent mostly under the spotlight and in the public eye. She was
perhaps the most famous star of Hollywood’s golden age, netting two
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Portland’s three weeks of dark and dreary foreign films flies off into the sunset.

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The Portland International Film Festival comes to an end
this week. There are only 10 new films—and some shorts from
Spain—showing this week, but this is more of a time to reflect on what
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Willamette Week plays judge, jury and award-giver-outer.

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The Portland International Film Festival comes to a close
this week. Normally, this is the time when a jury of expert film critics
hands out awards to deeply deserving films. There are some awar
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A rundown of the Best Picture nominees still playing in Portland theaters.

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This Sunday, Hollywood returns once again for its annual
worship of middlebrow cinema, and no matter how much you hate to admit
it, you’re watching the Oscars. How else will you know which sto
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While the first week of PIFF focused on choices, week two finds itself mired in the aftermath of those difficult decisions.

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Perhaps you’re watching Viggo Mortensen wander through the
unforgiving, hallucinogenic wastes of Patagonia in search of his lost
daughter. Or you’re listening to testimonials from survivors
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The missing tampon scene from the director that could have been.

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The much-anticipated film adaptation of the mega-successful erotic fanfic novel Fifty Shades of Grey hits theaters this week. Fifty Shades, which entered this world as Twilight
fan fiction, has so
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